Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

Editors’ preface vii
List of contributors ix
List of plates and figures xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction / David Bates and Elisabeth van Houts 1
1. Harness pendants and the rise of armory / John Baker 17
2. The transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c.1050–c.1250 / Elma Brenner 47
3. Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo’s De Balneis Puteolanis: new hypotheses / Teofilo De Angelis 65
4. A Latin school in the Norman principality of Antioch / Edoardo D’Angelo 77
5. Culti e agiografie d’età normanna in Italia meridionale / Amalia Galdi 89
6. The landscape of Anglo-Norman England: chronology and cultural transmission / Robert Liddiard 105
7. The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava / G. A. Loud 127
8. Écrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et de Geoffroi Malaterra / Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel 153
9. Bede’s legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon / Alheydis Plassmann 171
10. The transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth century / Daniel Power 193
11. Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050–1150 / Patricia Skinner 213
12. Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century Normandy / Alice Taylor 231
13. Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of Sicily / Mario Rosario Zecchino 253
Index 267